Choosing humility over outstanding wealth can be beneficial in the long run. Elementary pupils practice reading comprehension with a short fairy tale about Queen Hulda and her gifts to a poor shepherd, and demonstrate their ability to make inferences with a set of short-answer questions.

Concepts

reading comprehension, fairy tales, making inferences, context clues

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Pair with a lesson on fairy tales
• Include in a reading assessment when making class placements
• Use in a literacy center or with struggling readers

Classroom Considerations

• Includes only four questions; consider adding more that connect to your curriculum

Pros

• Story uses a wealth of descriptive sensory language
• Encourages readers to make inferences with context clues

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.5.1 RL.5.4